The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101720   Message #2056614
Posted By: Don Firth
19-May-07 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: Rufus Wainwright - So Tired of America
Subject: RE: BS: Rufus W. - So Tired of America
I tend to get exceedingly impatient with people who assume that being a secular society or a secular person means being devoid of spiritual or moral values. Some of the most spiritual, moral, and ethical people I know don't subscribe to any organized religion. They came to their conclusions about ethics and morality through philosophical study and contemplation rather than religious teaching.

And some of the most unspiritual, immoral, and unethical people—and groups of people—in the world, go around trumpeting their belief in a Supreme Being (as in God or Allah) and claiming superiority over everybody else because of their sublime ignorance and egotism.

The first song is kinda stupid, both as a song and as a concept. How can a reasonable person judge an entire country on the basis of a leader with only a 26% approval rating, and whose election by a razor-thin margin may very well be the result of hanky-panky at the polls?

And the second song sounds like mere whining.

Don Firth